Burning the autumn leaves in Norwich, Connecticut (LOC)

Delano, Jack,, photographer.

Burning the autumn leaves in Norwich, Connecticut

1940 Nov.

1 slide : color.

Notes:
 Title from similar photo, LC-USF34-042286-D.
Photograph shows Broadway from the corner of Otis St. facing toward downtown, with Memorial Park on the right. (Source: D. Taraskiewicz, 2005).
Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944.

Subjects:
 United States--Connecticut--Norwich

Format: Slides--Color

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection Lot 1167-2 (DLC) 93845501

General information about the FSA/OWI Color Photographs is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsac

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a33827

Call Number: LC-USF35-27

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    eugenemartin, jaxin, Gaurav-P, rula, and 152 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. SupRspi (60 months ago | reply)

    Another neat LoC photo.

  3. kaiso (60 months ago | reply)

    Ah, back when people were allowed to do "dangerous" things :-)

  4. moxythecat (59 months ago | reply)

    This is right across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral in Norwich. When I was in school there in the late 70's-late 80's, we would have recess in that park when the church parking lot was filled during the day when a major mass or funeral was taking place.

    Oh, and I'm pretty sure if you stood on this same corner today, it would look exactly the same. Norwich doesn't change much.

  5. betis70 (59 months ago | reply)

    I live just down Union St and walk around this park almost everyday. The building in the background (center-right) with the tower is painted a different color now, and the iron fence around the park is now a dark green, but most everything else is the same. The trees are taller now, and we can't burn leaves anymore.

  6. D Westerman Bowen (59 months ago | reply)

    That's where Global warming started.

  7. Filmann (59 months ago | reply)

    Betis,

    I see your comment on the graphic.

    I'm looking at the TIFF and I think the roof in the picture is slate.

    Most slate roofs have been replaced by now.

    At first I thought it was a copper roof but the roof is too dark for even a dark/ overcast day, and I think we would be able to see the seam lines such as are visible on the tin roof to the left of your comment.

  8. pdbg (58 months ago | reply)

    Could someone add a tag for what sort of trees those are?

    And, just as a remark -- leaf-burning had to be FAR down the list in terms of contributing factors to global warming in the '40's, in the face of that period's abundant coal use, inefficient gasoline engines, and reckless destruction of the natural environment.

  9. Helene Smith (49 months ago | reply)

    cool to see the (woman?) walking and the old parked cars (see larger view)... (which seem dated for 1940!).

  10. lhillhutcherson (43 months ago | reply)

    Lovely picture! Never been there, but it looks like a place I would love to be.

    I can almost smell the burning leaves- I am old enough to remember the leaves being burned in front of my home too.

    Very nostalgic- in spite of the now-known "dangers."

  11. Fabulous Marvelous Scandalous (42 months ago | reply)

    2 words LUCIO FULCI.

  12. Soleil is me. (42 months ago | reply)

    Bravo! Great work:)

    I appreciated the splendid million images on flickr.com, I can imagined how is your image beautiful. Thank you to share the best

  13. Tom Kaszuba (32 months ago | reply)

    I live in Norwich. I have walked that same street many times. It looks exactly the same.

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